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I am writing to you today to comment on Docket No. 99-25, the rules which allowed for the creation of a Low Power FM Radio Service. In response to the just-released MITRE corporation engineering study, a study that confirms that Low Power FM radio does not cause interference with existing broadcasts, when it exists on the third adjacent channel to those broadcasts -- I encourage the Federal Communications Commission and our elected representatives to expand the Low Power FM Radio Service. In its testimony before Congress, the National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) had complained that the FM radio dial would be drowned in "an ocean of interference." But the MITRE study authors found so little evidence of potential interference that they chose not to implement some later stages in the study -- such as an economic impact study and subjective listening tests -- that would only have been necessary if interference had been proven. The MITRE corporation even goes so far as to recommend that LPFM be instituted on that third-adjacent frequency. In the current American media landscape, too-few independent and local voices are allowed to compete with the consolidated, corporate media that permeates almost every aspect of American society. After over 700,000 citizens wrote the Commission and their elected representatives on this issue -- clamoring for local, diverse voices instead of a relaxed set of rules that would allow major corporations to encroach on their local media -- we believe that an expanded Low Power FM Service will provide a needed alternative for these citizens and their towns. Please work to support community radio. Sincerely, [your name, etc]

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